The Slashdot Top 40

For our machine learning project, we attempted to automatically guess ratings or labels for Slashdot comments based on their content. As a side effect, we generated some data on what words and phrases tend to appear disproportionately often in high-ranked (low-ranked, interesting, uninteresting, funny, unfunny, etc.) comments.

The set of the top 40 "Funny" phrases turns out to be a hodgepodge of cultural references. I am not sure I understand all of them.